Boxer Lovlina Borgohain’s coach, Sandhya Gurung, has received accreditation for the 2022 Commonwealth Games a day after the boxer’s “mental harassment” charges, according to sources. The bronze medal-winning boxer Borgohain, who won the bronze medal in Tokyo, took to Twitter Monday, claiming she was facing “mental harassment” due to the constant removal of her coaches, who helped her win an Olympic medal, from her training process and was later granted access after multiple requests. She also claimed that her coach Sandhya Gurung was denied entry to the Commonwealth Games Village.
“Today I would like to tell everyone with great sadness about the continuous harassment that is going on with me. The coaches who helped me win an Olympic medal are always sidelined, which has seriously affected my training schedule,” Lovlina wrote in her letter. twitter message.
“One of the coaches is Sandhya Gurungji, a winner of Dronacharya. I had to beg with folded hands to get my coaches into the contingent. I feel mentally harassed by this ordeal,” she wrote. “Right now, my coach Sandhya Gurung is outside the CWG village and he is not allowed to enter. Just eight days before the start of my event, my training schedule has been hampered. My other coach has been sent back to India,” she says. said.
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— Lovlina Borgohain (@LovlinaBorgohai) July 25, 2022
The Indian boxing squad reached the Games Village in Birmingham on Sunday night after a training stint in Ireland, but Lovlina’s personal coach Sandhya Gurung was unable to enter the Village due to her lack of accreditation.
The Ministry of Sports took action after Lovlina’s twitter message and asked the Indian Olympic Association to immediately arrange the accreditation of Sandhya Gurung so that she could enter the Games Village and be with Lovlina.
Lovlina claimed she received similar treatment before the World Championship in Istanbul and she fears something similar will happen at the upcoming Games in Birmingham.
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“I don’t understand how to focus on the Games (CWG) in the midst of all this? My world championships have suffered as well. I don’t want my CWG to be influenced by politics. medal for my country. Jai Hind,” she wrote.
Lovlina was only the third Indian boxer after Vijender Singh (2008) and MC Mary Kom (2012) to win an Olympic medal after taking bronze at the Tokyo Games.
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